...Matthew McGuire The Burial at Thebes , Seamus Heaney's adaptation of Antigone , was first performed at the centenary celebrations of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 2004. While reviewers read the play exclusively in the context of the post-911 “war on terror,” this essay relocates Heaney's play within...

...: An Attempt at a General Overview] . Ed. Golomb Jacob . Nietzsche ba-tarbut ha-ivrit [Nietzsche in Hebrew Culture] . Jerusalem : Hebrew UP , 2002 . 131 – 60 . Print . Butler Judith . Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death . New York : Columbia UP , 2002 . ———. Parting...

...: Antigone . Wiltshire: Aries & Phillips, 1987 . Cixoux, Hélène, and Jacques Derrida. Voiles . Paris: Galilée, 1998 . Freud, Sigmund. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse. Gesammelte Werke XIII . Frankfurt/M.: Fischer, 1999 . 71 -161. Guyer, Paul. “The Symbols of Freedom in Kant's...

...). This is particularly accom- plished, as it was for Hegel, by the quasi-subject that is the work of art. With Lacan’s Ethics of psychoanalysis the dramatic character of Antigone in Sophocles’ tragedy at a certain point in the play (L’Éthique 311; Ant. 795-96) temporarily presentiates the glowing beauty...

... Press, 1992 . Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress . Ed. N.H. Keeble. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966 . Butler, Judith. Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death . New York: Columbia University Press, 2000 . Derrida, Jacques. The Gift of Death . Trans. David Wills. Chicago...

... The Tempest in South Africa after April 1994.” Shakespeare and National Culture . Ed. John Joughin. New York: Manchester UP, 1997 . 142 -70. Print. Raji, Wumi. “Africanizing Antigone.” Research in African Literatures 36.4 ( 2005 ): 135 -54. Print. Reiss, Timothy. “Transforming Polities...

... that the paradigmatic case of the act is feminine: Antigone’s refusal to obey Creon’s prohibition, which excludes her from the community and, in severing the symbolic network that keeps the subject “afloat,” eliminates itself as a subject. For Zˇizˇek, the subject has no existence outside of the commu- nity...

...”; “to protect democracy against its others is to suspend its self-questioning, so that in preventing its sui- cide, we may assassinate it” (7–8). Fradinger develops her broad-ranging theoretical argument through three case stud- ies: Sophocles’ Antigone, the Marquis de Sade’s 120 days of Sodom, and Mario...

...”; “to protect democracy against its others is to suspend its self-questioning, so that in preventing its sui- cide, we may assassinate it” (7–8). Fradinger develops her broad-ranging theoretical argument through three case stud- ies: Sophocles’ Antigone, the Marquis de Sade’s 120 days of Sodom, and Mario...

...”; “to protect democracy against its others is to suspend its self-questioning, so that in preventing its sui- cide, we may assassinate it” (7–8). Fradinger develops her broad-ranging theoretical argument through three case stud- ies: Sophocles’ Antigone, the Marquis de Sade’s 120 days of Sodom, and Mario...

...”; “to protect democracy against its others is to suspend its self-questioning, so that in preventing its sui- cide, we may assassinate it” (7–8). Fradinger develops her broad-ranging theoretical argument through three case stud- ies: Sophocles’ Antigone, the Marquis de Sade’s 120 days of Sodom, and Mario...

... eye squarely on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), Achilles Tatius’s novel Leukippe and Kleitophon (ca. second century c e...

... on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), Achilles Tatius’s novel Leukippe and Kleitophon (ca. second century c e ), and Prudentius’s...

... thus has her eye squarely on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), Achilles Tatius’s novel Leukippe and Kleitophon (ca. second...

... are implicated in the process by which violated bodies assume meaning. Ballengee thus has her eye squarely on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus...

... argues ( 139–44 ), Isabella’s decision has deep, even Antigonian roots. The chastity to which she has pledged herself as a Poor Clare affirms a claim to personal autonomy that mirrors Antigone’s fidelity to familial piety in the teeth of Creon’s tyrannical edict that her rebel brother’s body be left...

... Justin . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2003 . Print . Chalier Catherine . “Ethics and the Feminine.” Bernasconi Critchley 119 – 29 . Print . Chanter Tina . “Antigone's Dilemma.” Bernasconi Critchley 120 – 46 . Print . ———. Time, Death, and the Feminine...

... and the Politics of Scepticism . Ed. Fuller Timothy . New Haven : Yale UP , 1996 . Print . Steiner George . Antigones . 1979 . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1986 . Print . Victoria and Albert Museum . “Touring Exhibition: Postmodernism Style & Subversion 1970–1990.” London , 24...

... and memory as alterity within the proper, a story that has no beginning and no end (Giordano). Unlike Antigone, or unlike the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, whose struggles it does not emulate, such a practice of writing does not directly defend an alternative law. Politically, it is in search of its rule...

..., with all of the BOOK REVIEWS/365 implicit interrelations visible and tangible); and it contains the inherent richness of a “new problematic of language” (as in the elastic connotative presence of “nomos” in the Antigone). However...